Improvement in coverings for spring bed-bottoms



- .N. DUTTO'N. Govering. for Spring Bed-Bottoms. No. 99,147 Patented Jan5, 1878..

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

NOAH DUTTON, OF JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN COVERINGS FOR SPRING BED-BOTTOMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 199,147, dated January15, 1878 application filed May 21, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

.Be it known that I, NOAH DUTTON, of Janesville, in the county of Rockand State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and usestead with mydetachable covering in place.

Fig. 2 is a top view of the cover detached.

The object of my invention is to produce a detachable cover for springbed-bottoms that will be cheap, simple, and durable, at the same timedispensing with all attachments of the cover to the bedstead or to aframe, to avoid a harbor for bugs, and a cover that can be kept cleanand free from all vermin, easily removed and cleansed, perfectlyadjustable, and comfortable at all seasons of the year; and this Iaccomplish by the use of a canvas or cloth cover for the ordinarycoil-springs of a bed-bottom.

The cover is made with a folded border sufficiently large to fall overand down outside of the springs, and which border is to be weighted withstrips of some heavy material, such as may be found most convenient andpracticable. This weight may be run into the fold in the border orattached to it in any way, so that the edges of the cover are held downto prevent it from slipping or wrinkling on the springs being equallybalanced.

The folds are made by first cutting out a square out of each corner ofthe cloth cover. The edges of the same are then folded over andstitched, so that the ends of the weights or strips are disconnectedfrom each other at the corners, and the borders are free to drop overthe outside of the springs.

I do not always use the weights or strips in the ends of the cover, butsometimes use them in the sides only, if that should be preferred, andin that case the corners of the cover need not be cut out.

The above construction of a covering for spring bed-bottoms has beenadopted by me after many years of experience in the manufacture ofbed-bottoms, in which I have been in the habit of holding the cover inplace in many different ways, and I have been led to adopt thisconstruction of a cover, and I am satisfied that the one described isattended with the least objection.

In the drawing, A, Fig. 1, is' the detachable cover. a a a a are theweighted strips to hold the same in position.

The corners of the cover may be cut out to permit the borders to dropdown over the springs.

If desired, the ends of the weighted strips a a a a, coming together atthe corners, may be attached together temporarily, if it shall be foundto be necessary.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

A detachable covering for spring bed-bettoms, consisting of the canvasA, having the Weighted strips to a a a inserted in its four edges, thewhole being adapted to rest directly upon the coiled springs, and tosupport and be wholly covered by the upholstered mattress, as set forth,substantially as described, and for the purposes specified.

NOAH DUTTON.

\Vitnesses S. HENRY HUDsoN, S. W. HUBBELL.

